5 March 1933, Election day in Berlin, Germany. Officials gather in a hall. Retired General Erich Friedrich Wilhelm Ludendorff, who was Hitler's partner in the 1923 Beer Hall Putsch, comes out after casting his vote. Officials talk among themselves. A wall map in the background. They hold ballot papers and go one by one for casting their votes. Newspaper headlines about the elections.
Two girls practice gymnastics in garden. Same girls, nieces of Arthur Kannenberg, pose near headlights of Mercedes car and hold out a small Nazi flag mounted near the headlights. (The older girl is likely Inger Poulsen of Elbingerode, born March 5, 1923 in Copenhagen, Denmark). Arthur Kannenberg arrives and kisses the girls. In next scene, the two girls and a third, younger girl, present a bouquet of flowers to their grandfather on his 73rd birthday. Their grandmother stands next to them. The grandmother and the girls walk along a sidewalk and are met by another man and woman, possibly the girls's parents, outside the Villa Luise. Camera pans upward showing identifying sign on the building.
Italian Fascist leader Benito Mussolini visits Munich, Germany. Benito Mussolini and German Chancellor Adolf Hitler walk on a street. Huge crowd stands on the roadside. Torches at the Ehrentempel in Königsplatz. Benito Mussolini and Adolf Hitler at Königsplatz, where they place commemorative wreaths at the Ehrentempel, honoring Nazis who perished in the 1923 "Beer Hall Putsch."
The Communs of the New Palace (Neues Palais Am Neuen Palais, 14469 Potsdam, Germany) in Potsdam, Germany. View of the colonnade connecting the two communs (now housing the University of Potsdam). Statuary obelisks at entrance in front of the communs. Dome of the New Palace from the west side. Other building of Communs. Statues and figures seen on pillars.
French occupation of Ruhr in Germany, as France sought World War 1 reparations payments from Germany. Rubble spread along the sides of a stream. Logs of wood scattered on the ground. A trolley moves along a line. Two French soldiers move across a rail road track with freight cars in the background. A railroad station in Ruhr. A train pulls away with French soldiers loaded onto it.
French occupation of Ruhr in Germany. Soldiers riding horses escort a car carrying President Paul Von Hindenburg of Germany. The car moves down a street with people gathered along the sidewalk. Children welcome their President. Hindenburg drinks from a glass. A large crowd gathered as the President reads from a book.